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LES NOURRITURES TERRESTRES

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One of the most popular books of a giant of modern French literature, this is a hymn to the pleasures of life that Gide came so close to losing forever while suffering from tuberculosis -- touch, hearing, smell, sight and, more than anything, taste.

Les Nourritures terrestres est une oeuvre litt?raire d'Andr? Gide, publi?e en 1897, ?voquant le d?sir et l'?veil des sens. Cette oeuvre de jeunesse, longuement m?rie, est celle d'un convalescent [...] qui embrasse la vie comme quelque chose qu'il a failli perdre. Ni roman, ni... Read Full Overview

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